as in mundane
having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven
like all sublunary things, this misery will one day end
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Recent Examples of sublunary
Our attention plunges in while the body remains firmly rooted in the sublunary world.
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Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
Planets and stars, eclipses and conjunctions would seem to have no direct effect on our lives, unlike the mundane and sublunary antics of our fellow humans.
—Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
In the profoundest sense, the words and deeds of a martyr say to her society that there is a higher world, a world that works according to a logic superior to that of this sublunary sphere.
—Dwight Lindley Iii, National Review, 16 May 2021
But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well.
—Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 7 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sublunary
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At the century-old Souk Waqif here, dozens of watch repairmen spend their days maintaining luxury timepieces and doing more mundane jobs like replacing the batteries in digital watches.—
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In traditional dictatorships, critics are often charged with crimes such as sedition, treason, or plotting insurrection, but contemporary autocrats tend to prosecute critics for more mundane offenses, such as corruption, tax evasion, defamation, and even minor violations of arcane rules.—
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By effectively transferring knowledge from freely available visual and language data, Magma bridges verbal, spatial, and temporal intelligence to navigate complex tasks and settings.—
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His work as a filmmaker includes Animal Room with Neil Patrick Harris, Perkins 14, Dark Ride, A Good Night to Die which premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2021 temporal horror film 6:45.—
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Before the internet, the methods of finding new sounds were decentralized and not equally accessible: terrestrial radio, cable television, music magazines, cool older sisters.—
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There are no good answers yet, though, and rushing with undue haste to Mars could result in shortcuts being taken that could greatly increase the risk of contaminating Mars with terrestrial microbes.—
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In the Great Lakes State, assault is defined as an attempt or threat to inflict physical harm on another person, along with the apparent ability to carry out the battery.—
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Regular mindfulness practices may improve your ability to cope with the physical and emotional challenges of menopause, including hot flashes.78 Practicing mindfulness can involve yoga, meditation, or even just noticing your breath or the sights and sounds around you at any moment.9 4.—
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How has Max died and why is his spirit anchored on the earthly plane?—
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That’s an awful lot of earthly real estate, but when the asteroid becomes visible again and draws closer to us, a much more precise ground-zero could be determined.—
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However, they are immediately attacked by a ferocious creature that seems not fully animal, not fully human.—
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Animal lovers will enjoy horseback riding or visiting one of the area’s animal sanctuaries.—
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“Sublunary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sublunary. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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